Background
Son of Lieutenant General Duncan McLeod, he was born in Fort William, Calcutta, and was educated at Edinburgh High School, Dulwich, Putney, and Haileybury.
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Royal High School.
Career
He was one of the founders of Punjab University (the Lahore Oriental University) and is generally remembered as a philanthropic administrator and promoter of education (of both Oriental studies by Europeans, and European literature studies in India). He returned to Bengal in 1828 as an officer to start his career. He worked in the Sagar and Nerbudda territories and Benares in 1831-1849.
He was appointed Commissioner of Jalandhar in 1849 and Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab in 1854.
He was at Lahore during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and earned C.B. He was Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab in 1865–1870, receiving Knight Commander of the Star of India in 1866. He was Chairman of the Sind, Panjab and Delhi Railway before he retired and settled in London.
He had pronounced religious opinions, and was a philanthropist. Sir John Lawrence called him "cunctator".
Due to the lack of education among the natives in the Punjab, he started the Punjab University in Lahore.
He also encouraged Oriental Studies and voiced his opinion on education in vernaculars. Due to his efforts the British Government introduced vernaculars in universities alongside English. He died from the effects of an accident on the London Underground.
He is buried on the east side of the south section of the central north-south path in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.
McLeod Ganj was named after him. McLeod Road Lahore is named after him Lake, Major-General Edward John.
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India